The Mayfair
Community Choir invites you to an evening of Christmas music and songs on November 29th, with
festive readings from Dylan Thomas's 'A Childs Christmas in Wales', John
Betjeman and James Joyce as well as others.

The event will be held at Mayfair Library, 25 South Audley Street, London, W1K 2PB, and will run from 7pm to 8.30pm.

A £5 donation
on the door includes a glass of wine and welsh themed nibbles. Please book
your place at the Library.

The Christmas Lights in Regent
Street will be switched on at 6.50pm on Thursday 17th November.

The theme for this year’s
Christmas lights is ‘The Spirit of Christmas’ to embrace the spirit of the yuletide
period.

Heart Breakfast presenters
Jamie Theakston and Emma Bunton will lead the show from 6pm, and after
performances from music stars Tom Odell and Rebecca Ferguson presenter Holly
Willoughby will switch the lights on at 6.50pm.

A public
exhibition is being held on Monday 14th November to display the proposals for the future of Bond Street’s public
realm.

New West End
Company’s Bond Street Management Group with Transport for London and
Westminster City Council, through the West End Partnership, has been working on
proposals to revitalise Bond Street’s public realm.

Funding for
the proposed scheme is being provided by a combination of property owners,
retailers with Westminster City Council and Transport for London.

Before the
public realm works commence in January 2017, New West End Company would
like to share the final proposals with our businesses at a public
exhibition over two days on-site at Bonhams Auction House, 7 Blenheim
Street, London, W1S 1LG.

The
exhibition will be accessed via the side-entrance on the corner of Woodstock
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Since the devolution revolution under
the Blair government that gave Scotland its Parliament, Wales an Assembly,
and London an elected Mayor, the politics of localism has been increasingly
fashionable in the UK. But with a new wave of elected mayors due in 2017,
are we at risk of locking communities behind a wall of socialism?

For the full article on the
ConservativeHome website please click here.